Peter Minuit, the famous governor of New Motherland, was a German from Wesel on the Rhine, and Jacob Leisler, leader of a popular uprising against the provincial administration of New York, was a German from Frankfort-on-Main.

著名的新祖国总督彼得·米努伊特是来自莱茵河畔韦塞尔的德国人，而反对纽约省政府的民众起义领袖雅各布·莱斯勒则是来自美因河畔法兰克福的德国人。